Pregnancy Hormones Hit Different: Alex Cooper Cries Over Undersized Steak

Pregnancy does wild things to your body, and Alex Cooper’s latest revelation proves that sometimes the most relatable moments happen over a dinner plate. The 31-year-old media mogul opened up on her Call Her Daddy podcast about the intensity of her pregnancy cravings — and let’s just say her appetite has been operating on a whole different level.

In the early weeks, Cooper described feeling like a vacuum, capable of consuming an entire family’s worth of food. It sounds exaggerated until she tells you what actually happened. During a work trip with her husband, Matt Kaplan, they hit up a restaurant where everyone at the table raved about the steak. Sounds straightforward enough, right? Wrong. When the meal arrived and Cooper saw the portion size, she burst into tears because it wasn’t big enough. Not metaphorically — she actually cried. She felt like an animal, she admitted, and Matt saved the moment by offering up his own steak to appease the hormone-fueled hunger spiral.

This wasn’t Cooper’s first rodeo with unusual pregnancy cravings. She’s already made headlines for her obsession with donuts and In-N-Out burgers. But somehow, getting emotionally overwhelmed by the size of a steak takes the whole experience to another level. It’s one of those moments that captures the absurdity and intensity of pregnancy in a way that generic“pickles and ice cream”stories never quite do. Her vulnerability about these very human, very weird experiences is exactly why listeners tune into Call Her Daddy — because real talk beats polished answers every time.

Cooper announced her first pregnancy with Matt Kaplan last month, and she’s already showing off her growing baby bump. Nine months of this? That steak restaurant better prepare themselves if she ever goes back.